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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicBeas river

Topic: Beas river

3 killed, 40 missing following cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh

Road connectivity has been hampered, 4 motorable bridges and footbridges have been washed away. Rescue operations are going on in full swing.

Himachal to ‘consider controlled riverbed mining’ to curb floods but environmentalists sound caution

State officials say stoppage of mechanised riverbed mining has led to accumulation of sediment in rivers, leading to flooding. Expert panel now studying riverbed to make policy.

As rains kill 20 in Himachal, residents say dumping of construction debris in rivers adding to problem

According to officials, as many as 12 bridges have been washed away by the raging waters of Sutlej and Beas. Nearly 1,000 roads have been closed, they said.

Punjab’s worst ecological crisis in years cannot be cleaned up anytime soon

A massive spillage of an estimated 10,000 litres of molasses from a sugar mill in Gurdaspur district into the river Beas Wednesday might have been government doing.  Chandigarh: The...

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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.